KNIFE GENES RULE
Renowned knifemakers Tony Bose and Mel Pardue, along with BLADE® editor Steve Shackleford, officially joined the BLADE Magazine Cutlery Hall Of Fame® during the BLADE Magazine Awards Reception the Saturday night of BLADE Show 2019.
Held in a new venue—the Garden Court Area of the Renaissance Waverly Hotel in Atlanta—the reception also crowned the BLADE Magazine Knife Of The Year® Awards (page 32) and the winner of the show’s fifth and final Edda and Aldo Lorenzi Award, Bill Ruple (page 6).
Cutlery Hall-Of-Famers Ken Onion and Bruce Voyles inducted the new members. Onion did the honors for Bose and Pardue and Voyles ushered in Shackleford.
TONY BOSE
As Onion noted, Tony Bose claimed some people “are born with a knife gene.” If anyone can make that claim and then some, it is the new Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame member.
Things didn’t come easy for Bose from the get go. Born in 1946, he lost
